248 Evangelical Repentance. 3,- But for the more full. Anfwer to this, pray confider with, nse, thefe Six, or Seven Dilliations. Fiat, It's one thingfor a manta be troubled-in Confcience : andanother thingto be humbledfor fincommitted. Thofe that are Damn'd in Hell, and lie there defpairing, mull needs be troubled inConfcience ; how could they defpaire elfe? Takea foul that has the work oftheLaw upon him, and a meer work ofthe Law ; and in Come refpeets, he may be more troubled in Confcience : but a Chriftian that path a workof theGofpel upon: his heart,is notwithftanding this more humbled for-fin committed. Again, It's one thing for a man to beprick,t in heart : and a- nother thing for a man toRepent. Ye fhall find' therefore, that. in the 2. of the Atli 'tifaid concerningdivers, That they- were prick't in their heart, and faid, What (hall we do ? Pe- ter faid onto them, Repent. They. were prick't in their heart, and faid, what fhall we do? and he faid, Repent. Poffibly then, a man or woman maybe prick't in the heart, andyet not Repent. Thofe that have the workof the Law upon them, may have more legal. prickings : but thofe that hare thework ofthe. Gofpel, they Repent more. Again, It's one thing for a man to Repent offin confidered, in genere entis : and another thing, ingenere moris. Sin may beconfidered in regard ofthe mifchief, and inconvenience that does come thereby : Orin regard ofthe moral evil of it. 'Tis faid concerning Pular, That when he law what became ofthings, he .Repented And aMalefaCtor, amur- derer, when he fees-what fhall become ofhim, that he mull die for his fin he may Repent ofhis fin, in genere en-. tis ; wifhing that he had:never doneit : and yet my be not Repent iq genere morn. Ye reade concerning Efau,in the 12. of the Always, That befought his birth- right with tearer but foundno room for his Repentance. He Repented, he Re- pented withTears; but found no room for his Repentance. What Repentancewas, this ? Sales Agin : He kreived that beheld tof! his birth-right not that he had'bidhis birth-right. So thete wasno room for fuck a Repentance. And fo now, tae,
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